corona virus appears far wider than any one thought. ah, the future proofing against another pandemic, g 7 lead us discuss how to stop global disease outbreaks within a 100 days. ah, i'm sammy say that this is al jazeera alive from the hall. so coming up prominent hong kong activists, agnes chow is released after serving a prison sentence for the 2019 protest. algerians, those in parliamentary elections, democracy activists say in one change the system and the firm us songs on the conflict and 8th yoke. his northern te gray region puts

a long standing friendship to pass a preventing, another pandemic. he's the main point of discussion has g 7 lead a settling to day to the summit in the u. k. so understood del agreed to work on ways to stamp out future disease outbreaks within the 1st $100.00 days. dealing with this pandemic, the g 7 earlier now as plans to donate a 1000000000 doses of covey, 900 vaccines to low income countries. many see that as a good 1st step, but inadequate, we need more than by left. so forms of support and the individual countries initiatives. we need a concert to that so that we need global that the nation plan and for the global reputation brand can be possible. we need all the companies that are meaningful in

the election or can be with the proper support to come together. if not least is that there will be still lives in developing world where the vital it spreads like was. also in fact days agenda is foreign policy. g. 7 members are expected to unite against what they view as a resurgent, china and friends from russia. are diplomatic at the james base. he's outside forgotten the council, sometimes not far from the summit venue. so james, talking about foreign policy, understand the us, is advocating for an alternative to china's road and belt initiative. how's that message being received? or certainly something that the u. s. is going to push very hard and i think they're going to hope to get in the final communicate. they're going to be several messages about china, about china's human rights. particular message we think about force labor inching chung. but as you say, china as belts and road initiative may, may, i say, have

a new rival, has a burial, could name of what the biden administration are proposing, building back better for the world initiative, the b 3 w. now they say that this will be on an ambitious and credible scale. they say the problems with the belts and road initiative is that the lack of transparency doesn't have proper environmental labor standards. and they say many of the countries that have signed up for it are in debt, and i'm not getting anything out of it financially in the end and the ending off solve the problem with this us plan. i think it's pretty simple and that they are 80 years late behind the belt and road initiative. and we've got no idea how they're going to fund this. the estimate from us officials is that there is a gap of 40 trillion dollars in the infrastructure that's needed and they want this new initiative to fill that gap. that will encourage countries to fill that gap.

but we don't think there's gonna be any funding coming from the g 7 this meeting this weekend. it's worth reminding you that even those is an initiative from the biden administration that own us infrastructure plans of certainly not been approved domestically. so the idea they might get approval for some funding in the us for infrastructure around the world seems a little far off. we've also mentioned future proofing, health crises in the future. what exactly are they going to commit to? well we're hoping to something, something called a cobb is bay declaration. and the idea that is to look at all of the things that have happened in the world over the last 1516 months and see if in the future they can be sped up. so everything is ready if there is another pandemic. so the world wouldn't have to wait for a vaccine to be developed to be plans, constantly rolling plans to develop vaccines. the other things we, we've had,

you know, the supply of protective equipment, things like that. they want to have everything ready in a resilient manner so that if the world faced a similar problem, the world would be completely prepared. and certainly that declaration i think, is there in draft form. and i hoping that that can be agreed by the g 7 in the final communicate. remember this meeting takes place today, saturday and on sunday. so a lot more work from the g 7 in the coming hours. and we've talked about the big issues. climate is another big issue to be discussed of this summit ahead of another big climate agreement they hope at the end of the year, which would also be here in the u. k. but a range of where you get to this many world leaders in the same place, a range of conflicts around the world also being discussed. and that saw senior diplomat. again, it's a james phase. as we mentioned, one of the issues g 7 lead is likely to discuss the growing assertiveness of china,

especially in the asia pacific region. the rapid growth of china's military is helping fuel of regional arms race. but mcbride reports from a naval trade show the south korean port city of bu, sun, the opening of an international exhibition, putting on display the latest in naval weaponry that's increasingly made in south korea. decades of maintaining military readiness, only divided peninsula have gradually transformed the country into an important manufacturer. so huge a little while the pony interviews, and we've come to realize the importance of developing our own weapons for defense . and we're now able to produce weapons just as powerful as those made by other countries, which is a recent agreement with its ally, the united states. now allow of south korea to develop longer range missiles with heavy payloads. and it follows the unveiling of a new home grown jet fighter prototype family. we have opened

a new era of self defense and of also established a historic milestone in the advancement of the industry. it comes as south korea and most asian neighbors are looking to spend more on new weapons driven in part by china's ballooning defense spending. and its expansion is portion the region with the break away island of taiwan. once again, becoming a potential flash point, it means that your pacific is increasingly b arena for global rivalry to play out a one camp united states in the life confronting and ever more assertive china and russia was starting to feel like a new type of cold war and let's not forget, of course, the north korea factor. the failure of the last few years of the nuclear is asian talked with north korea as raised peers. if a regional arms race going nuclear. if we fail to graze north korea and then you'll

be growing voice for the nuclear station in south korea, then that will trigger for nuclear forces in japan. even time one will be in the pushing for that idea. debt would be the really night, mary. she scenario as relations between asian neighbors become more strained. so the rhetoric between them builds in anger, giving all of them ever more reason to arm up just in case public ride al jazeera boost on south korea. one of hong kong, prominent pro democracy activists has been released from prison. agnes child serv more than 6 months in jail, for her role in an anti government protest in 2019 the 24 year old was convicted along with activists. joshua wong and ivan lamb for an unauthorized riley near police headquarters. both agnes chow and joshua wong face other charges on the bay jeans national security law. from hong kong,

adrian brown explains the coming of her relief. china and hong kong are going to be discussed at the g 7 summit in cornwall. and of course, you have to remember that it's very rare for people to be released from jail on a saturday in hong kong. yet that is what has happened. so coincidence will no coincidence. we also have the fact that this is the anniversary, the 2nd anniversary of the 1st really violent protest here in hong kong that happened outside the many parliament. that was when legislators would you to get the 2nd reading that controversial expedition, both which settled a whole chain of events leading to months of unrest outside the jail, where agnes child on saturday morning. there were plenty of umbrellas because it's a monsoon season here, but also those brothers were symbols of the continuing resistance against chinese

rule. agnes child herself certainly looks a lot thinner than she did when she was sentenced almost 6 months ago. she said nothing to the media when she left and i think that that is possibly because she was also arrested before has sentencing in an arrested under the new national security law. so i think she really wants to keep her comments to the media, to the absolute minimum at the moment she is. as we know, this is one of the globally recognized spaces of the what's left of the pro democracy movement here in hong kong. and let's not forget, she was only a teen 1617 years old when you set up the demo cisco political party with joshua long and they from law that was back in 2014. when the umbrella movement began algerians voting in the 1st parliamentary election since mass protest force president. capitalize these with a fleet got to step down 2 years ago. the hedgehog pro democracy movement is urging

supports as a boy called the vote. 7 of its leaders were arrested on thursday. and tasha what aim has more algerians have been promised a new algeria by president abdul majid to boon. but for many, the 1st legislative elections since protesters pushed out his predecessor in 2019, are heading for the same outcome, preserving the political status quo in their country. they be equally whether it turns out that jury and stuff confirm that for them. elections have never been a solution and that's why they cut them and the elections are being held. just month after president boone dissolved the parliament. some members still had a year left on their term. the government says it inactive reforms designed to fight systemic corruption and create more opportunities for women and young people . more than half the candidates are running as independence. providing voters with

an alternative to the old guard political parties. i'm going to vote because i see that they are candidates who will bring change to the country. knowing that the previous ones were more focused on their personal affairs and they forgot about people. critic say these elections are an attempt by the government to provide a year of legitimacy to a young, frustrated population that continues to protest that the between the dissolution lies in them craddick transition. it also allows you to dialogue around the table in order to solve the crisis. the crisis will not be sold by elections, but unfortunately, the authorities still insist on their old practice of organizing elections. there has been a crackdown on protesters and journalists now there are calls for a boycott which could give muslim parties of boost than this. but i do not have

a voting card. and in any case, even if i had one, i would not vote if last november is constitutional referendum is any guide, voter turnout could be low back then only about one in 7 eligible algerians voted. natasha named al jazeera. then the news ahead iran presidential hopefuls heading into the final televised debate and the pulitzer prize on the teenager film, the faithful arrest of george floyd. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored my cattle airways. hello, we got lots of wet weather across a good part of china at the moment we are seeing some very heavy writing to central and southern areas. so somebody of a contrast for japan, high pressure,

not too far away. so i think the northern parts of japan should be generally fine and dry. we got some showers, say, just running across q shoes, of pulse of hon. she may be central as of home, she could catch a shower or 2, but look at china central southern part, seeing some heavy rain by the north of bay, some rather wet weather on here in paying it around. $35.00 degrees celsius over the next couple of days at bank of cloud and rain will run up towards the yellow sea towards the east china sea. still looking pretty wet there, across southern paths of china all the way down into northern areas of vietnam and missing that wet weather run rod across into south asia. it's black landed up journalist shot here that is the progress of the south west, the monsoon, quite active at the moment across the western side of india, a very active to on the other side of the bay have been goal into what me and mar, picking up that moisture from the piping goal, this is just to the northwest of young gone 144 millimeters of bright and moon by

114 millimeters of right. it stays very wet for much of western india. sponsor cut on airways. something was going to change. anything really change. this is systemic violin that needs to be addressed at its core. we are in a race against the area. know what to say. we are also looking at the world as it is right now, not the world. we like it to be, the devil is always going to be in the details. the bottom line, when i was just around the us is always of interest to people around the world. people pay attention to what on here, and i'll do this very good at bringing the news to the world from here. ah, ah, ah,

welcome back here watching, i'll just time to recap our headlines now. global vaccine access and pandemic recovery. authentic dominate talks on the 2nd day of the g. 7 summit. leaders will later time declaration agreeing to prevent a global pandemic from ever happening again. agnes child, one of hong kong, supposed prominent activists has been released from prison. she served more than 6 months in jail for her role in a non authorized anti government protest in 2019 algerians voting in the 1st parliamentary elections. the last protest for the president that as these, with the fleet to set down protest leaders of off poses to boycott, the poll in iraq. the 3rd and final presidential election debate will be held live on state television later on saturday. the theme is people's concerns. as iranians prepared to vote in next week's polls, candidates had

a heated discussion in their last televised debate accusing each other of treason and lacking in education. those jabari has more fun to her on. this last debate is likely to be very much similar to the past to the previous, to the candidates themselves and describe this format as you'd like, liking it to a game show. a lot of people that have spoken to in the capital have not been watching these debates because there is no clear platform for each of these candidates. all they end up doing is attacking each other and their own previous histories within the establishment. so there isn't a lot that it's unveiled for the people in terms of what they will be voting for if they choose a candidate. now the other thing to point out is they lost, the bates only have 37 percent of the public watching the live events that takes about 3 hours on sate tv. there isn't a lot of interest in general in iran at the moment with the election, and specifically these debates have not had any impact on whether or not people

will go to the polls. there is a lot of disillusionment with the government of hi sandra honey over the past 8 years. and the state of the country's economy, the real has lost 80 percent of its value over the past 8 years. so really, the only thing the average person here is interested in whether or not their livelihoods will get any better. and these candidates have done very little to actually highlight what they would do if they become president. it's democracy day and niger area, and typically people celebrate the end of military rule in the $900.00 ninety's this year. though nigerians are protesting security type. in the largest city lagos, people have been gathering to vendor anger against the failing economy and the tax on group. i'm going to drill has more from lagos, the moment that your projects are filled out, right? yeah. i feel always a few minutes ago. probably 30 minutes ago,

the situation was a bit volatile. they were protest, i thought it very deeply. and the one the demonstrators broke the line of defense by the police set up. and then the 2nd line and the 3rd line. and that was when all hell broke lose then. and the police fire, see, i guess people run for shelter. there was live rounds that run out and god created a lot of confusion. some people arrested and later released by the secular courses full. i've been here for a very, very long time, probably since last night, anticipating trouble today. and that's not the only place we've also heard about incident across the cities. they want to confirm the moment. yes. the federal capital. wow. somebody wants to just let you guys were fired at some of the demonstrators. there were also reports of protest in a quarter. we are not sure. and we haven't heard of anybody. but again, this is coming out a difficult time for the states. people here angry,

but the politicians are failed. the saudi arabia is barring foreign pilgrims from attending the high job, most in pilgrimage for a 2nd year due to the pandemic citizens and residents will be able to attend, though the number will be kept at 60000. normally, more than 2000000 people would travel to mecca to take part in what's seen as an obligation for muslims to perform at least once in their life times. and the lockdown has been imposed on chiles capital, despite more than half of the population being fully vaccinated. santiago has reported some of the was covey. 19 cases. since the pandemic began there up 25 percent over the past 2 weeks. 98 percent of intensive care beds are occupied. thousands of protesters of march to want to cyrus to demand better government

support. the country faces a steep economic and health crisis. infections are soaring in argentina, the government has extended restrictions and to prove china's can seen a vaccine for emergency use. many say they're struggling to survive without work. there is about reports from one side of the demanding vaccines salaries and jobs. thousands of protesters converging on central when a site is on friday publicly now worked as a waiter, but lost his job last year. he hasn't been able to find another job since thursday, but i was trying to finish high school even though i'm 33 years old. i tried to do everything from cleaning windows in the streets, to selling food. i'm worried about the future of my children when the father of 3 says his children have not attended school in the past year. and he can hardly afford to pay for an internet connection. and then he has had

a huge impact in latin america. in argentina, the economy contracted almost 10 percent last year. there's a storing inflation rates and poverty is affecting around 42 percent of the population. the government is trying to find a balance between preserving health and economic subsistence, but it's a challenge, especially when millions of people are struggling to make ends meet argentine, as government has extended pandemic restrictions for 2 more weeks to contain the spread of the virus. an average of 600 people are dying every day of cova 19, and there are more than 20000 daily infections. you know. so what it though, and that the, even though argentine struggle to get vaccines, president elevated for amanda says the situation has started to improve with vaccines coming from russia. china and the united kingdom come up when i don't remember it out. we are know, vaccinating faster speed, all our efforts are to do it even more so,

and we will rest in peace. when everyone has a job, the virus exists, the virus mutates and it complicates the life of humanity. now there's a triple mutation that's appeared in india, but in some countries in the region, vaccines i know, guarantee that the number of infections will go down soon. on friday, she announced the lock down in the capital santiago and rising coal with cases. even though nearly 60 percent of the population has been fully vaccinated, the main reason government critic say is losing of corona virus restrictions, tucson, unemployment, and the economy are the main reasons why lockdown have proven to be unpopular in this part of the world. in for my workers psych pena and i cannot afford to stay home, even though the government has increased cash handouts. most people here say it's not enough to be i'm working in a cooperative cleaning parks among other things. i can't afford to stay home. we

need jobs, i have an 11 year old son. that's why i'm here today. the pen demik continues to expose the regions inequalities and it's chronic economic troubles. both a major barriers in the fight against over 19 believe i will, i just want to fight is covered 900 cases arising in russia to particularly big cities like moscow. it's mayor is ruling out any new locked downs. russia recorded more than 13000 new cases on saturday as the highest single day number since february. moscow accounted for nearly half of those infections. a nation wide, long town in malaysia is being extended schools and universities will remain closed in gatherings band for at least another 2 weeks. the measures were brought in at the start of the month after the daily number of new infections, top 9000 things have been improved enough yet though

technology firm, apple says it did not provide democratic politicians e mails to the trumpet administration. the us justice department is launching an investigation into a subpoena delivered to apple in 2018. it was part of an inquiry into linked information. apple says it complied with the order but limited the information provided. top senate democrats have called on former attorney general jeff sessions and william ball to testify before congress. gabriel alexander has more from washington d. c. yeah, it's important to put this in a little bit of context here. this all goes back to around 2018 under president. then president donald trump and the justice department that he essentially oversaw them with the allegations are, is that the trump white house ordered the justice department. perhaps the allegations are to get phone records in meta data e mails and what have you from political rivals and journalists,

as part of the white house's attempt to see who was leaking damaging information about donald trump. but the problem with this is that the justice department is an independent body. it's not supposed to be doing, get involved with political things such as this at all, and trumpet white house. no secret had it had always made no secret of the fact that it was using the justice department to do some of the bidding if you will. that's not necessarily a secret. there's been all sorts of allegations for a long time. but these are just new and democrats right now are outraged on capital hill that these new allegations coming to light that perhaps in 2018 to 2019 that the justice department was seeking records, emails, phone call, records and such and the like from to prominent democrats on the house intelligence

committee, or 2 democrats that were particularly vocal against donald trump. this just goes completely against the norms and perhaps even breaking laws. and so that is why there is so much outrage about this by democrats right now. politicians from both political parties in the u. s. a. pull forward a bill that can break up the world's largest, the most powerful tech companies. it's the product of a 15 month investigation by an anti trust subcommittee in the house of representatives. they argue, companies like facebook, google, amazon, and apple have too much power and often destroy small businesses. above the news is won a pulitzer prize for its investigation into the math attention of wiggle muslims in china. before part series, cold bill to last use satellite images to demonstrate china had secretly built dozens of prison internment camps since 2000. and 17 buzzfeed also interviewed former detainees to identify more than $260.00 newly built structures for the

judges also gave a special on it to the teenager who recorded the murder of george floyd dannetta phrase. you have filmed his death, the hands of a police officer in minneapolis on a mobile phone. the footage from may last year, sparks, a global outcry, also enrolled now from washington, d. c. hill. it surprises are perhaps the most prestigious in american print, journalism. and this award for darnell of fraser, the 17 year old at the time, who used her cell phone to record the murder of george floyd. at the behest of derek show, then the former minneapolis police officer earned her a special citation essentially because she performed as a journalist. she recorded that moment and she said that she suffered great emotional trauma because of it. but she also was said recently that because of what

she did, it was possible for derek shogun to be convicted of george floyd's murder and to be sent to prison for the rest of his life, a pending appeal. it's also worth noting that her hometown newspaper, the minneapolis star tribune, did win the breaking news prize for its coverage of, of george floyd's murder and of the immediate impact on the twin cities community in the state of minnesota. and indeed, nationwide that is the 2nd highest ranking fuel it surprised the number one prize went to the new york times for covering the other major story of 2020, here in the united states. and of course, around the world, the coven pandemic. it's worth noting that most of the awards either dealt with the cobit pandemic, the institutional, as well as the personal impact or dealt with the very difficult question still of race relations here in the united states. the biden administration is returning

more than $2000000000.00 to the pentagon, which was diverted by former president donald trump. the money was set aside by the trump administration to pay for his board wall project construction has been on hold since joe biden, to office the white house, hes transferring the money away from the defense department was wasteful ah, and let's take you through some of the headlines here now just 0. now, global vaccine access and pandemic recovery are set to dominate talks on the 2nd day of the g. 7 summit leaders will later sign a declaration agreeing to prevent the global pandemic from ever happening again.